Saturday, February 22, 2014

I met up with a former work colleague, Mukai san, for dinner this week. My only requests were that we go to an authentic Japanese restaurant and that he do all the ordering. Success! We went to Cocoro and it was fantastic.

Mukai ordered a bunch of "tapas style" food....which I failed to photograph...that included eggplant, bamboo root, fried chicken, oyster stew, and dumplings. Then we had a beef hot pot - delicious!

I had to photograph the great origami skills of Mukai who made a "chop stick pillow" out of the paper that had held the chop sticks.

The craziest thing about the evening was that there was a big party at the table behind us and I looked over and said "that guy looks a lot like Nishina san (another former colleague)" and it was! So great to see him too!

And who doesn't love a restaurant where green tea ice cream is included in the meal :-)

Thursday, February 6, 2014

On the first day of my new project for work I was walking around and ran into Cliff, who had been in my training class. He'd been on this project since October and hadn't made it to the city once. This had to change obviously, and restaurant week was the perfect occasion. Cliff said he liked seafood, so G.T. Fish and Oyster was the natural choice....and it was amazing!

Our appetizers were tuna poke and a shrimp bruschetta.

Soup and salad course was clam chowder and seared tuna nicoise salad.

We both got the mahi mahi with black rice for our main.

And topping it off for desert we devils food cake and a coconut cake with pineapple reduction.

Where can I go from your Spirit?Where can I flee from your presence?If I go up to the heavens,you are there;if I make my bed in the depths,you are there.If I rise on the wings of the dawn,if I settle on the far side of the sea,even there your hand will guide me,your right hand will hold me fast.Psalm 139:7-10